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The Department of Parks and Wildlife (DoPW) says the decision to reduce crew working at a smouldering burn in WA's south-west was reasonable in the circumstances. The burn subsequently flared and threatened property near the Wellington National Park....

Are 600 year old trees being converted into wood chips? Do Karri trees last as long as 600 years? According to a WA Environment group they have the evidence to prove it and believe it is happening in the South West....

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The Ourimbah Landcare Group is doing its part to regenerate the NSW Central Coasts natural habitat. The community group stumbled across a piece of land along the M1 freeway, north of Sydney, 19 years ago. Instead of seeing kikuyu fields, they saw what existed before: the original subtropical ...

According to Donald Trump, who referenced the Finnish while responding to the scale and tragedy of the California wildfires, they're doing something right. He pointed to one particular practice of "raking" forest fires, which caused some confusion. Many Finnish people took to social media to ...

The yearly burning of peat in Kalimantan produces smoke which blankets large areas of South East Asia. The air becomes unbreathable. Masks are issued but they have marginal affect. Meanwhile vast areas of forest are removed and carbon previously stable in peat is released to the atmosphere as ...

For green thumbs across Australia, Mayfield Garden in central west New South Wales is a paradise. It's one of the largest cool climate gardens in the southern hemisphere and attracts thousands of tourists every year. But plans for a nearby quarry extension may force the gardens to be closed to the ...

Australian Sustainable Hardwoods is leaving the small town of Heyfield in Victoria because it says it can't get enough native forest timber from the Government. It's planning a move to Tasmania, where the company will source plantation timber from mostly private plantations. ...